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TIL Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the exact same day.

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lA8K TIL Derreck Kayongo collected barely-used bars of soap from hotels, melted them together, and distributed them to poor countries. He’s the founder of the Global Soap Project, which improves access to basic sanitation and reduces disease and child mortality.
Y790r TIL that "Liquid Ass" so realistically mimics the human colon that it's used by the US Military to train combat medics
YprnZ TIL that the United Nations is located in international territory sold to the UN for $8.5m by John D. Rockefeller.
DQNBv TIL Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the first practical telephone, was partly driven to experiment with hearing devices because both his mother and his wife were deaf.
p8pb4 TIL that James Buchanan, the 15th President of the United States, is the only president to have military experience without having been an officer. He was a private in the Pennsylvania militia in 1814.